Sample Projects
professional and academic projects
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Revamping Acoustic Acquisition System
Read more: Revamping Acoustic Acquisition SystemHydrophones sensors are used to listen and record the sounds under water (just like a microphone above water!). Individual sensors and arrays of sensors can produce large amounts of data that need to be processed into various formats for analysis. One of my largest projects has been revamping the system that acquires and processes that…
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Synthetic Aperature Radar on a Linear Rail
Read more: Synthetic Aperature Radar on a Linear RailOur group wanted to develop the capability to visualize and characterize the radar returns of small components based on the work of an academic paper. The team of 4 (Computer Engineer, 2x Mechanical Engineers, and a Project Manager) were given 10 weeks to develop the system. As the Computer Engineer on the team, I was…
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Rebuilding GPS/INS Sensor Packages
Read more: Rebuilding GPS/INS Sensor PackagesIn order to measure the RCS on a test vessel, you need to know the distance and orientation of the object to corelate with the radar data, preferably in real time. When I onboarded with the Radar Trials team, the sensor packages that were in use were outdated and in bad repair. It was difficult…
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Building Mach1 High Performance Cluster
Read more: Building Mach1 High Performance ClusterI have been managing high performance clusters since the beginning of my career. One of first tasks was to migrate a group of users doing radar simulations off of an old SGI cluster to an Apple XServe cluster (and more recently to COTS supermicros). So when an acoustic simulations group approached me to modernize their…
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Tracking an Aircraft Carrier from a Helicopter
Read more: Tracking an Aircraft Carrier from a HelicopterOne of the most fun projects I have done. We were tasked to measure the RCS of the newest Aircraft Carrier in the fleet. Given the size of the ship, it was decided to do this measurement off-shore by setting up the radar on a helicopter that would circle around the boat. This posed a…
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System Engineering for Navy Trainers
Read more: System Engineering for Navy TrainersOne of the groups I worked with built simulations of naval systems for training purposes. When I came on, they were starting up two smaller training systems, each ~$2 million dollars. They had a pseudo-requirements document from the sponsor, but no system in place to manage it. As I read through the requirements document, I…
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Red Team Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV)
Read more: Red Team Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV)For my senior design project, we got a grant of $25k to explore if bad actors could use an unmanned underwater vehicle could keep a naval asset in port for 30 days. The opportunity arose from the extensive history of collaboration between the US Navy and Stevens Institute’s Davidson Laboratory. Thanks to the scholars’ program,…